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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

By Anthony Everitt
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

A reconstruction of the life of the ancient Greek conqueror highlights his contradictory depictions throughout history, placing his achievements against a backdrop of his own historical time to discuss his growing empire, respect for regional traditions and mysterious death.

Ask Again, Yes

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation.

Beautiful Bad

By Annie Ward
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Starting a therapeutic journal in the aftermath of a scarring accident, former travel writer Maddie is forced to reckon with her husband's PTSD, her son's safety, and her family's complicated history with her best friend, Jo.

Before She Knew Him

By Peter Swanson
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Finding some peace in her new life in a house outside of Boston, Hen's calm begins to dissipate after she meets a new neighbor and spots an object in his home that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder case that has been an obsession for Hen.

Better Man

By Louise Penny
Series Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim’s distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.

Birthday Girl

By Melissa De la Cruz
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent–Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful facade of her life crumbles in one eventful night.

Bookish Life of Nina Hill

By Abbi Waxman

A confirmed introvert finds her simple life upended when the father she never knew passes away, revealing an enormous extended family that overwhelms her budding relationship with a fellow trivia buff.

Bromance Book Club

By Lyssa Kay Adams
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance–reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.

Catch and Kill

By Ronan Farrow

Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture.

Chain

By Adrian McKinty

A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.

City of Girls

By Elizabeth Gilbert
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Eighty–nine–year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal.

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

By Sarah Rose
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

The dramatic, inspiring story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis, shore up the Resistance, and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.

Dearly Beloved

By Cara Wall
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In a novel that spans decades, the lives of two young couples become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co–ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s.

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By Cal Newport
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Argues that the world urgently needs a reduction of personal online time as part of a healthy lifestyle choice and offers a thirty-day digital declutter process that helps people feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

Doll Factory

By Elizabeth Macneal

1850s London beautiful young aspiring artist Iris is asked to model for Pre–Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, whose dark obsession may destroy her world forever.

Dominicana

By Angie Cruz

The award–winning author of Soledad draws on her mother’s story in a tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family’s immigration to America.

Donna Has Left the Building

By Susan Jane Gilman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Leaving behind her family and her suburban home when her world implodes, forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski sets off on a road trip to rebuild her life.

Dutch House

By Ann Patchett
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate. By the award–winning author of Commonwealth.

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

By Louise Aronson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A geriatrician, writer and professor of medicine challenges the way people think and feel about aging and medicine through stories from her twenty–five years of patient care as well as from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life.

Evvie Drake Starts Over

By Linda Holmes
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Young widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house.

First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

By Brad Meltzer
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Presents the previously untold story of a pre-Revolutionary War assassination attempt against George Washington by some of his own bodyguards, exploring how the plot catalyzed the creations of the CIA and FBI.

Flatshare

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

Fleishman is in Trouble

By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Divorcing his hostile wife when he concludes he could find genuine happiness elsewhere, a doctor is astonished when his ex abruptly disappears, making him unable to move on without acknowledging painful truths about his marriage.

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

By Tembi Locke
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

An actress and TEDx speaker describes how her professional chef husband's Sicilian family didn't initially approve of him marrying a black American woman and the three summers she spent with them after he succumbed to cancer.

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By Casey Cep
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

Future of Another Timeline

By Annalee Newitz
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history–changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel–world America where time travel is possible.

Gideon the Ninth

By Tamsyn Muir
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Raised in a hostile undead world where she would escape servitude and a zombie afterlife, a lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom in a solar system of swordplay and cutthroat politics.

Invited

By Jennifer McMahon
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

When an inspired effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by discoveries about her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of three generations of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.

Island of Sea Women

By Lisa See

While working as divers with the all-female diving collective on a small Korean island Mi–ja and Young– sook find their friendship challenged by their differences and forces outside their control.

Lager Queen of Minnesota

By J. Ryan Stradal

A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub.

Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

By Dave Barry
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and best–selling author of Dave Barry Turns 40 now shows how to age gracefully, taking cues from his beloved and highly intelligent dog, Lucy.

Life and Other Inconveniences

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When she became pregnant in high school and her grandmother kicked her out, Emma worked to build a happy life for herself and her daughter, and now after nearly two decades with no contact, her grandmother suddenly calls her with a request.

Life Will Be the Death of Me ... and You, Too

By Chelsea Handler

The comedian shares her year-long journey to escape her privilege bubble, a time of change that included therapy, self-reflection, and finding her voice as an advocate for change.

Lock Every Door

By Riley Sager

Jules takes a job as an apartment sitter at a posh Manhattan building to escape heartbreak and earn some cash, but when a fellow apartment sitter disappears, Jules digs into the building's past and what she finds sends her racing to unmask a killer.

Lost Man

By Jane Harper
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

When their middle brother Cameron, who went missing the week before Christmas, is found dead, Nathan and Bub are forced to confront devastating secrets.

Magic for Liars

By Sarah Gailey
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister—without losing herself.

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

By Stephanie Land
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

By Lori Gottlieb
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The national advice columnist presents a behind–the–scenes tour of a therapist's world from the perspective of both a patient and a psychotherapist who found answers in her client's journeys.

Mistress of the Ritz

By Melanie Benjamin

The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II.

More Than Words

By Jill Santopolo

Mourning the death of her father and reeling from an astounding secret, Nina Gregory finds herself caught between the world of her longtime boyfriend and her passionate boss.

Mother-In-Law

By Sally Hepworth
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A woman's obsessive fears about how much she disappoints her successful, pillar-of-the-community mother-in-law lead to a controversial disinheritance and a suspicious suicide.

Night Tiger

By Yangsze Choo
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.

Ninth House

By Leigh Bardugo
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.

Olive, Again

By Elizabeth Strout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

By Ocean Vuong

A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read reveals the impact of the Vietnam War on their family history and provides a view into parts of the son's life that his mother has never known.

On the Come Up

By Angie Thomas

An ambitious young rapper pouring her frustrations into a first song only to find herself at the center of a viral controversy that forces her to become the menace that her public reputation has portrayed her to be.